"Simple text and full-color photos illustrate the traits, training, and duties of search and rescue dogs"--Provided by publisher.

"In this book, young readers learn about search-and-rescue dogs."--

Describes the necessity of search-and-rescue dogs, their duties, temperament, training, and common breeds chosen. We hear about human heroes daily, but what do we know about our furry-legged ones? This series introduces various types of service dogs and explains the type of assistance they provide, from visual guide dogs to therapy dogs. Kids will love learning how a person's best friend is sometimes also a superhero! Additional features to aid comprehension...

Describes the job search-and-rescue dogs do, what makes a good search-and-rescue dog, and the places they work.

Describes the necessity of bomb-sniffing dogs, their duties, temperament, training, and common breeds chosen. We hear about human heroes daily, but what do we know about our furry-legged ones? This series introduces various types of service dogs and explains the type of assistance they provide, from visual guide dogs to therapy dogs. Kids will love learning how a person's best friend is sometimes also a superhero! Additional features to aid comprehension...

"When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a trail of blood-and men who want them dead. With gunmen closing in, can Autumn and Derek survive long enough to save his brother?"--Back cover.

"Border collie Skye, a trained therapy dog now learning search and rescue in a national park in California, has her first opportunity to help when a sixteen-year-old boy goes missing. Includes information about border collies and working dogs"--WorldCat.

A killer's out for vengeance... unless this K-9 sniffs him out first. When a plane carrying dangerous convicts crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Deputy Sierra Young and her search-and-rescue K-9, Samson, race to help--and discover they're after her! With one survivor vowing revenge, Sierra's former coworker turned PI, Bryce Elliott, is determined to protect her. But can Bryce, Sierra and Samson track down the fugitive before he succeeds in taking their...

"Someone's planting explosives on dams in the Twin Cities, and Bristol Bachmann and her bomb-sniffing dog must move quickly to find them before everything ends up underwater. That means relying on the dams' supervisor - an ex-boyfriend Bristol never thought she'd see again. Hopefully Remington Jones has grown up from the rakish charmer she knew in her academy days. Because lives now depend entirely on them ... It's an environmental terrorist who wants...

A missing teen, a killer on the prowld... This K-9's on the case. In the Alaskan wilderness, there's only one way to track a serial killer: a K-9. For police captain Bre Dayton, that means working with her ex, search and rescue worker Griffin Knight. With her niece missing and possibly kidnapped, Bre has to find the murderer known as the Echo Pass Hunter -- fast. Even if it means trusting the man who broke her heart... and putting herself in the killer's...